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Biography
Antero Garcia is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and President of the National Council of Teachers of English. His research explores the possibilities of speculative imagination and healing in educational research. Prior to completing his Ph.D., Garcia was an English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles. He has authored or edited more than two dozen books about the possibilities of literacies, play, and civics in transforming schooling in America. His recent books include All Around the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology and Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom. Antero currently co-edits La Cuenta (lacuenta.substack.com), an online publication centering the voices and perspectives of individuals labeled undocumented in the U.S. Antero received his Ph.D. in the Urban Schooling division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Other titles
Professor, Graduate School of Education
Program affiliations
CTE
CTE: Literacy, Language, and English Education
CTE: Teacher Education
Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD)
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
(MS) LDT
(MA) STEP
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Research interests
Civic Education | Collaborative Learning | Critical Pedagogy | Culturally Responsive Pedagogies | Digital, Media & Multimodal Literacies | Learning Technologies | Play, Games, and Learning | Qualitative Methods | Race, Culture, and Identity | Youth Identity, Agency, and Voice
Recent publications
Logan, C., Nichols, T. P., & Garcia, A. (2025). Teach like a Luddite. PHI DELTA KAPPAN, 107(3-4), 37–41.
Vossoughi, S., Garcia, A., Rosa, J., & Mirra, N. (2025). Epistemological/Ontological Interview: Magnitudes of Creativity: Clarifying Our Commitments to Solidarity in Educational Research and Practice: An Interview with Shirin Vossoughi and Jonathan Rosa. RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH, 60(2), 236–247.
Mirra, N., & Garcia, A. (2025). Editors' Introduction: Freedom is a Strong Seed: Transforming Civics through English Language Arts. RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH, 60(2), 133–142.
